The law, however, was on the side of Karnis, and it allowed him to pursue her and cast her into prison.

This idea haunted her, and for fear of being caught she avoided all the chief thoroughfares and kept close to the houses as she stole through the side streets and alleys.

Once, in Antioch, she had seen a runaway slave, who, having succeeded in reaching a statue of the Emperor and laying his hand on it, was by that act safe from his pursuers.

There must surely be such a statue somewhere in Alexandria--but where?
A woman, of whom she enquired, directed her down a wider street that would take her into the Canopic Way.

If she crossed that and went down the first turning to the left she would reach a large open square in the Bruchium, and there, in front of the Prefect's residence and by the side of the Bishop's house, stood the new statue of Theodosius.
This information, and the mention of the Bishop, gave a new course to her proceedings.